This weekend I was joined by my friends Steve and Richard as we completed our third and most arduous section of the Dorset coast path between Lulworth and Worth Matravers. We travelled by train from Winchester to Wareham where we were picked up by our B&B host David who drove us to his house at about 14mph and introduced to his Asian wife (Hong Kong) who basically worked as his happy slave. Like all couples who own B&B's David and ...
Against the odds and certainly against my expectations Reading FC reached the Championship Play-Off final at Wembley on Tuesday night. For me and thousands of other Reading fans it is, perhaps, the chance to finally put to bed this misery we suffered in 2001 at the Millennium Stadium and even more importantly the utter dejection at Wembley in 1995 when we missed a penalty when 2-0 up and went on to lose 4-3 in extra time. We followed ...
This weekend just gone has been so hectic that it is hard to recall the full measure of what has happened. I will start with Friday and the first leg of the Semi Final of the Play offs for Reading v Cardiff. As a neutral this game would have been about as interesting as watching Formula One, but as a supporter, it was quite tense and exciting in a frenetic way, with not much skill on show, but plenty of endeavour from both sides, the 0-0 ...
Some of you may have noticed a distinct lack of Blogs over the last week or so, this is because cricket has temporarily taken over my life as I run two under 15 Colts sides.They have had five games in less than two weeks. On top of that George has played two adult games and two school matches, plus I have also played in three Sunday matches culminating in a batting average of 3.5 and seeing my first delivery of the season dispatched ...
Even if you are not a saddo like me and in general, you pay no particular interest in the British weather, you would have struggled not to notice the heat and dryness that the south of England has been subjected to in the last month. You don't often see statistics like these; The warmest April for 350 years (though how well the temperature was measured in the 1600's is any ones guess) included the hottest April day since 1949 (27.8c) ...